I got into herps when I was 8. I purchased 3 Fire Bellied Newts and an African Clawed Frog at the local bait shop. I am 23 now and all are still alive. Either I am doing something right or someone is switching out dead ones to help not break my heart. I seem not to follow common care directions, but they have done just fine for years. My first snake came at 18, a beautiful Ball Python. The whole herp obsession didn't kick in until about 21, I started seeing geckos and frogs at pet stores and discovered herp shows, and off I went. It got to the point of, "I see it, I but it". I even had to pay half of someones rent to house my herps there, because I was stuck in a lease in a small apartment. What a pain driving 1/2 hour every day for feedings. My collection has varied somewhat, mainly with lizards, specifically geckos lately. Herps are like potato chips, "you can't have just one, or twenty for that matter. Any gecko lovers out there want to talk, and share info, feel free to e-mail me. Best of luck to all you herp lovers out there.



My Current Herps:

9 Leopard Geckos Eublepharis macularius, 6 White-Lined Geckos Gekko vittatus, 2 African Fat-Tail Geckos Hemitheconyx caudicinctus, 3 Central American Banded Geckos Coleonyx mitratus, 3 Desert Banded Geckos Coleonyx variegatus spp. , 4 Crested Geckos Rhacodactylus ciliatus, 1 Pictus Gecko Paroedura pictus, 4 Carrot-Tail Viper Geckos Tarentolepis fasciata, 1 Henkel’s Gecko Uroplatus henkeli, 2 Ocellated Velvet Gecko Oedura monilis, 1 Northern Velvet Gecko Oedura castelnaui, 1 Gold Dust Day Gecko Phelsuma ladicauda, 1 Giant Day Gecko Phelsuma madagascarensis sp., 6 Bearded dragons Pagona vitticeps, 1 Rankin’s Dragon Pagona brevis, 1 Veiled Chameleon Chameleo calyptratus, 1 Long Tail Grass Lizard Takydromas sexlineatus sp., 1 Water Dog Xxotyl, 3 Fire-Bellied Newts Cynops orientalis, 1 African-Clawed Frog Xenopus laevis, 5 Fire-Bellied Toads Bombina orientalis, 1 Blue and Yellow Poison Dart Frog Dendrobate tinctorius, 10 Yellow and Black Poison Dart Frogs (Tadpoles) Dendrobate leucomelas, 4 Emperor Scorpions Pandinus imperator.

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